Hyperplasia

Thin, long, black probe

In my artificial sleep

Tissue in the gut, taken.

Under the light, smeared
It was focused, zoomed
While I waited, long.

Shutting my world
In silence I filled the hours
With busied nothingness, until --

The day I sat in that freezing, quiet room,
He pushed the paper, white as his coat
The precious word he underlined,

'Benign' - focused, zoomed, magnified
And the skies became bluer --

Life, sweeter.